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Sketch maps in the elaborate manuscript, Cosmographie by the French navigator Jean Alfonse, who accompanied Roberval to Canada in 1541. The Manuscript is in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris M.S. fran ... [View full title] cais 676. I. Labrodor and the regions to the norht including Iceland - 260. II. Newfoundland and Labrador. Labrador is cut in two by a broad channel, marked in Bay d'on vennent les glaces" which Alfonse thought came out of a fresh water sea.-261 III. The Gulf of St. Lawrence, called "Mer de Canada."-263 IV. The Guld of St. Lawrence and part of the river, were called "Riviere du Canada."-264 V. Entrance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the southern part of Newfoundland.-265 VI. The New England coast.-265 VII The Coast to Florida, with the West Indies and part of South America. -266 [cartographic material]